First off those are not the most efficient or realistic courses for a missile. It looks like someone drew them without taking into account the Mercator distortion. In actuality, a ballistic tragectory from North Korea would, on a Mercator plot appear to arc north. It would pass over Alaska and possibly the arctic circle (for the same reason that flying to Japan from the US frequently involves a trip over pack ice).

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As someone who grew up in central ND, and still has kin 'round those parts, it's nice to see someone else's middle-of-nowhere being the target of whacko communists.

Though "plus or minus one hemisphere" is probably too generous an estimation of their targeting ability, so... not really any change.

Posted by: Mikeski at Sat Mar 30 00:41:49 2013 (DU6Ja)

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Obviously the result of a low-information targeting plan. Texas is big and important. Obviously since we're just like them except we pretend differently, everything gets centralized in the capital and so obviously Austin is the biggest and most important city in Texas.

Gotta remember that, while early on there may have been a bunch of cynicism involved in the Nork government, it's being run these days by people who grew up under the system, and honestly they just don't know any better anymore.

So how does that explain LA? Probably left over from a previous target map, drawn up by someone with better info and maps back in the day.